SLES 12 comes with several innovative technologies - such as systemd as a SystemV init replacement, GRUB2, UEFI, GPT support, and others. This course covers these innovations and also teaches a system administrator how to administer SLES 12 efficiently and effectively.

After attending the course, the student should be capable to administer SLES 12, including systemd, to deal with specialized networking and storage setups, and should have a solid understanding of basic Bash scripts.

Key Objectives

The goal of this course is to enable the SLES 12 administrator to

Use the Shell efficiently and create Shell scripts

Configure IPv6 and manage specialized network configuration setups

Manage Storage

Manage Processes, the boot process, and Systemd

Configure common network services

Establish server health and troubleshoot problems

Förkunskaper

Attending students should have a good working knowledge of general system configuration and command line work with Linux.